All posts tagged "Central Bank"

Reprinted from FEE.org John Tamny specializes in using popular culture to illustrate economic wisdom. He succeeded mightily...

This article was originally published in the National Post We have records covering 5,000 years of interest...

Reprinted from the Pembroke Daily Observer After having enjoyed years of rising stock prices, investors have since January...

Central banks the world over have lowered interest rates almost to zero- i.e., they have adopted a...

The lead story this morning on CBC Newsworld was that inflation in Canada ticks up to 1.6%...

Reprinted from Fee.org The Big Short — based on Michael Lewis’s bestselling book on the 2008 financial crisis...

Republished from InternationalMan.org “Gold costs you insurance and storage.” This is arguably true. But it’s really a...

Reprinted from InternationalMan.com A meme is now circulating that gold is the investment equivalent of a pet...

Reprinted from Zerohedge.com With Citi’s chief economist proclaiming “only helicopter money can save the world now,” and the Bank of England pre-empting paradropping money concerns, it appears that Australia’s largest investment bank’s forecast that money-drops were 12-18 months away was too conservative. Over the last few months, in a prime example of...

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Reprinted from PanAm Post For the first time in years, lawmakers from Argentina’s ruling Front for Victory coalition have proposed upping the size of the country’s largest denomination banknote to AR$200. Congressman Carlos Kunkel, author of the initiative, claims the measure has nothing to do with inflation, which runs at 25-35 percent annually, according...

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“But pretty soon the word “recession” also became too harsh for the delicate sensibilities of the American...

To cut or not to cut, that is the question. And fortunately for Bank of Canada Governor...

Reported from Zero Hedge About a year ago, everyone’s favorite easy money advocate Paul Krugman accused the...

In November 2014, China’s central bank declared it will lower the interest by 0.4%. The modification is...

This article is excerpted from chapter 3 of Politically Impossible? Suppose an economist is convinced that the...

Here we go again. A plunge in oil prices has spurred a bevy of articles from the...

Reprinted from the Pembroke Observer Since the collapse of Lehman Brothers investment bank in 2008, central banks...

Reprinted from Casey Research A comedian quipped a few years ago, “You might be a redneck if...